expositional

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And all of this expositional dialogue, I’d love to give it to people around me so that all of Dr. Brenner’s focus can be on finding Eleven.”

From New York Times • Jul. 5, 2022

But because so much of the trilogy is dedicated to expositional scenes laying down the foundations of Shadyside’s history, there’s too much that’s admirable in theory and flat on screen.

From Washington Post • Jul. 21, 2021

“With this movie, it was about getting past the expositional elements, getting past the metaphysics and mechanics. You don’t want the audience to get ahead of the loop.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 5, 2021

She decided to write it in the first person—unusual for epic fantasy, which often leans on the third person to accommodate expositional detours about the imagined world.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 20, 2020

Now his work is an ideal example of what is expositional.

From The City of Domes : a walk with an architect about the courts and palaces of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, with a discussion of its architecture, its sculpture, its mural decorations, its coloring and its lighting, preceded by a history of its growth by Barry, John D. (John Daniel)